What Core Skills Do Teachers Need To Be Effective?

(...) There’s a pervasive American myth that good teachers are born, not made, and that good teachers have a set of inborn traits that naturally blossom as they figure the job out on their own. To get better teachers, the theory goes, schools need to find more people with those traits. The other myth is that teaching is easy — the work involves children and the content is pretty basic, so it must be easy. “Teaching is complex work that people actually have to be taught to do,” says Deborah Loewenberg Ball, dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan. Fonte / Link: Mind/Shift